They hit themselves in the golden heads with golden hammers, and then it is time to take off your false faces

Decadence may not be a correct economic theory, given the alarming lability of capital and the alarming capacity of humans to endure misery en masse. It may be a flawed conception of history, too beholden to a sense of a direction and line of advance, a project that can go south. It may be wishful thinking.

But still. It exists, as real as carbon and abstractions. And it sounds and shines like this.